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Mordecai  M.  Noah's !  Discourse 


ON  THE 


Restoration  of  the  Jews 


REPUBLISHED  IN  EXTRACT 

WITH  AN  INTRODUCTORY  NOTE 
BY 

D.  S.  BLONDHEIM 


THE  FRIEDENWALD  COMPAlfT 
BALTIMORE,  MD.,  U.  8.  A. 


MORDECAI    M.    NOAH 


RESTORATION  OF  THE  JEWS! 


DELIVERED  AT  THE  TABERNACLE,  OCT.  W  AND  OBC  t,  U& 


B?   M.    M.    NOAH. 


C9lt»  a  JBap  of  t»*  a«r,8  •(  E.ratl, 


NEW-YOBK: 

BARPBR  *   BROTBKB3, 

1845. 


(FAC-8IMILE  OF  THE  TITLE-PAQE  OF  THE  ADDRESS  AS  FIRST  PUBLISHED.) 


INTRODUCTORY  NOTE* 

MORDECAI  MANUEL  NOAH,  the  author  of  the  following  ad- 
dress, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  July  14,  1785,  and  died  in 
New  York,  May  22,  1851.  He  was  of  Portuguese  Jewish  des- 
cent, his  father  having  taken  an  active  part  in  the  American 
Revolution.  He  engaged  in  trade,  but  soon  studied  law,  and,  re- 
moving to  Charleston,  S.  C.,  he  entered  politics.  He  was  ap- 
pointed in  1813  to  the  important  post  of  Consul-general  at  Tunis, 
where  he  rescued  several  Americans  who  were  held  as  slaves, 
and  made  an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  establish  schools  for  the 
Jews  living  there.  (See  Zunz,  G.  V .,  p.  489.)  He  traveled  ex- 
tensively in  Europe,  and,  struck  with  the  contrast  between  the 
Jews'  position  in  Europe  and  the  freedom  he  enjoyed  in  America, 
he  became  convinced  of  the  need  of  a  home  for  his  people,  who 
were  treated  as  strangers  in  the  lands  of  their  birth.  Returning 
to  New  York,  he  published  (1819)  a  book  on  his  travels,  wrote 
several  popular  dramas,  and  edited  a  number  of  influential  news- 
papers. He  held  the  positions  of  surveyor  of  the  port  of  New 
York,  judge  of  the  court  of  sessions,  and  sheriff.  Described  as 
a  "  pundit  in  Hebrew  law,  traditions,  and  customs,"  he  published 
in  1840  a  translation  of  the  "  Book  of  Jasher." 

He  advanced  projects  for  the  establishment  of  a  Jewish  state 
on  three  occasions.  At  the  "  Consecretion  of  the  Synagogue  of 
the  Shearith  Israel  Congregation  in  the  City  of  New  York,"  on 
April  17,  1818,  he  delivered  an  address  in  which  he  says  that 
"  when  the  signal  for  breaking  the  Turkish  sceptre  in  Europe  " 
is  given,  the  Jews,  who  "  hold  the  purse  strings  and  can  wield  the 
sword,"  and  "  can  bring  one  hundred  thousand  men  into  the 
field,"  will  "  possess  themselves  once  more  of  Syria,  and  take 
rank  among  the  nations  of  the  earth."  The  second  plan  he  pro- 
posed was  the  well-known  scheme  to  open,  on  Grand  Island,  near 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  upon  a  site  called  Ararat  (with  a  play  on  his  own 
name),  a  refuge  for  the  Jews  pending  their  final  restoration  to 
Palestine.  The  plan  came  to  naught,  after  a  pompous  dedica- 
tion in  an  Episcopal  church  in  Buffalo,  on  September  2,  1825. 
Finally,  on  October  28,  and  December  2,  1844,  he  delivered  the 
address  from  which  selections  follow  before  large  audiences  of 
Jews  and  Christians.  This  address,  which  strikinsgly  recalls 
modern  Zionistic  projects,  attracted  much  attention,  being  re- 
ported at  length  in  the  newspapers  of  the  time. 

*This  article  is  reprinted  from  the  Maccabaean  of  April,  1905.  The  copy 
of  the  original  address  used  by  the  editor  was  lent  through  the  courtesy  of 
Mr.  Mendes  Cohen  and  Miss  Bertha  Cohen,  of  Baltimore,  from  the  library  of 
their  uncle,  the  late  Dr.  Joshua  I.  Cohen. 


MORDECAI  M.  NOAH'S  DISCOURSE  ON 
THE  RESTORATION  OF  THE  JEWS 


I  HAVE  long  desired,  my  friends  and  countrymen,  for  an  oppor- 
tunity to  appear  before  you  in  behalf  of  a  venerable  people,  whose 
history,  whose  sufferings,  and  whose  extraordinary  destiny  have, 
for  a  period  of  4000  years,  filled  the  world  with  awe  and  astonish- 
ment: a  people  at  once  the  most  favored  and  most  neglected,  the 
most  beloved,  and  yet  the  most  persecuted ;  a  people  under  whose 
salutary  laws  all  the  civilized  nations  of  the  earth  now  repose ;  a 
people  whose  origin  may  date  from  the  cradle  of  creation,  and 
who  are  likely  to  be  preserved  to  the  last  moment  of  recorded 
time 

Where  can  we  plead  the  cause  of  independence  for  the  children 
of  Israel  with  greater  confidence  than  in  the  cradle  of  American 
liberty?  Where  ask  for  toleration  and  kindness  for  the  seed  of 
Abraham,  if  we  find  it  not  among  the  descendants  of  the  Pil- 
grims ?  Here  we  can  unfurl  the  standard,  and  seventeen  millions 
of  people  will  say,  "  God  is  with  you ;  we  are  with  you :  in  his 
name,  and  in  the  name  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  go  forth  and 
repossess  the  land  of  your  fathers.  We  have  advocated  the  inde- 
pendence of  the  South  American  republics,  we  have  given  a 
home  to  our  red  brethren  beyond  the  Mississippi,  we  have  com- 
bated for  the  independence  of  Greece,  we  have  restored  the 
African  to  his  native  land.  If  these  nations  were  entitled  to 
our  sympathies,  how  much  more  powerful  and  irrepressible  are 
the  claims  of  that  beloved  people,  before  whom  the  Almighty 
walked  like  a  cloud  by  day  and  a  pillar  of  fire  by  night ;  who 
spoke  to  them  words  of  comfort  and  salvation,  of  promise,  of 
hope,  of  consolation  and  protection ;  who  swore  they  should  be 
His  people,  and  he  would  be  their  God ;  who,  for  their  protection 
and  final  restoration,  dispersed  them  among  the  nations  of  the 
earth,  without  confounding  them  with  any " 

Within  the  last  twenty-five  years  great  revolutions  have  oc- 
curred in  the  East,  affecting  in  a  peculiar  manner  the  destiny  of 
the  followers  of  Mohammed,  and  distinctly  marking  the  advance- 
ment of  the  Christian  power.  Turkey  has  been  deprived  of 
Greece,  after  a  fearful  and  sanguinary  struggle,  and  the  land  of 
warriors  and  sages  has  become  sovereign  and  independent. 
Egypt  conquered  and  occupied  Syria,  and  her  fierce  pacha  had 
thrown  off  allegiance  to  the  Sultan.  Menaced,  however,  by  the 
superior  power  of  the  Ottoman  Porte,  Mehemet  AH  was  com- 


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pelled  to  submit  to  the  commander  of  the  faithful,  reconveying 
Syria  to  Turkey,  and  was  content  to  accept  the  hereditary  pos- 
session of  Egypt 

Russia,  with  a  steady  glance  and  firm  step,  approaches  Turkey 
in  Europe,  and  when  her  railroads  are  completed  to  the  Black 
Sea,  will  pour  in  her  Cossacks  from  the  Don  and  the  Vistula,  and 
Constantinople  will  be  occupied  by  the  descendants  of  the  Tartar 
dynasty,  and  all  Turkey  in  Europe,  united  to  Greece,  will  con- 
stitute either  an  independent  empire,  or  be  occupied  by  Russia 
who,  with  one  arm  on  the  Mediterranean,  and  the  other  on  the 
North  Sea,  will  nearly  embrace  all  Europe.  The  counterbalance 
of  this  gigantic  power  will  be  a  firm  and  liberal  union  of  Austria 
with  all  Italy  and  the  Roman  States,  down  to  the  borders  of 
Gaul :  but  the  revolution  will  not  end  here.  England  must  pos- 
sess Egypt,  as  affording  the  only  secure  route  to  her  possessions 
in  India  through  the  Red  Sea;  then  Palestine,  thus  placed  be- 
tween the  Russian  possessions  and  Egypt,  reverts  to  its  legitimate 
proprietors,  and  for  the  safety  of  the  surrounding  nations,  a 
powerful,  wealthy,  independent  and  enterprising  people  are 
placed  there  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  Christian  powers, 
and  with  their  aid  and  agency  the  land  of  Israel  passes  once 
more  into  the  possession  of  the  descendants  of  Abraham.  The 
ports  of  the  Mediterranean  will  be  again  opened  to  the  busy  hum 
of  commerce ;  the  fields  will  again  bear  the  fruitful  harvest,  and 
the  Christian  and  Jew  will  together,  on  Mount  Zion,  raise  their 
voices  in  praise  of  Him  whose  covenant  with  Abraham  was  to  en- 
dure forever,  and  in  whose  seed  all  the  nations  of  the  earth  are 
to  be  blessed.  This  is  our  destiny.  Every  attempt  to  colonize 
the  Jews  in  other  countries  has  failed ;  their  eye  has  steadily 
rested  on  their  own  beloved  Jerusalem,  and  they  have  said,  "  The 
time  will  come,  the  promise  will  be  fulfilled." 

The  Jews  are  in  a  most  favorable  position  to  repossess  them- 
selves of  the  promised  land,  and  organize  a  free  and  liberal  gov- 
ernment ;  they  are  at  this  time  zealously  and  strenuously  engaged 
in  advancing  the  cause  of  education.  In  Poland,  Moldavia, 
Wallachia,  on  the  Rhine  and  Danube,  and  wherever  the  liberality 
of  the  governments  have  not  interposed  obstacles,  they  are  prac- 
tical farmers.  Agriculture  was  once  their  natural  employment; 
the  land  is  now  desolate,  according  to  the  prediction  of  the 
prophets,  but  it  is  full  of  hope  and  promise.  The  soil  is  rich, 
loamy,  and  everywhere  indicates  fruitfulness,  and  the  magnificent 
cedars  of  Lebanon  show  the  strength  of  the  soil  on  the  highest 
elevations ;  the  climate  is  mild  and  salubrious,  and  double  crops 
in  the  lowlands  may  be  annually  anticipated.  Everything  is  pro- 
duced in  the  greatest  variety.  Wheat,  barley,  rye,  corn,  oats, 
and  the  cotton  plant  are  raised  in  great  abundance.  The  sugar 
cane  is  cultivated  with  success ;  tobacco  grows  plentifully  on  the 
mountains ;  indigo  is  produced  in  abundance  on  the  banks  of  the 
Jordan ;  olives  and  olive  oil  are  everywhere  found ;  the  mulberry 


almost  grows  wild,  out  of  which  the  most  beautiful  silk  is  made ; 
grapes  of  the  largest  kind  flourish  everywhere,  cochineal  is  pro- 
cured in  abundance  on  the  coast,  and  can  be  most  profitably  cul- 
tivated. The  coffee-tree  grows  almost  spontaneously  ;  and  oranges, 
figs,  dates,  pomegranates,  peaches,  apples,  plums,  nectarines, 
pineapples,  and  all  the  tropical  fruits  known  to  us,  flourish  every- 
where throughout  Syria.  The  several  ports  in  the  Mediterranean 
which  formerly  carried  on  a  most  valuable  commerce  can  be  ad- 
vantageously reoccupied.  Manufacturers  of  wool,  cotton,  and 
silk  could  furnish  all  the  Levant  and  the  islands  of  Mediterranean 
with  useful  fabrics.  In  a  circumference  within  twenty  days' 
travel  of  the  Holy  City,  two  millions  of  Jews  reside.  Of  the 
two  and  a  half  tribes  which  removed  east  of  the  trans- Jordanic 
cities,  Judah  and  Benjamin,  and  half  Manasseh,  I  compute  the 
number  in  every  part  of  the  world  as  exceeding  six  millions.  Of 
the  missing  nine  and  a  half  tribes,  part  of  which  are  in  Turkey, 
China,  Hindostan,  Persia,  and  on  this  continent,  it  is  impossible 

to  ascertain  the  numerical  force The  whole  sect  are  in 

a  position,  as  far  as  intelligence,  education,  industry,  undivided 
enterprise,  variety  of  pursuits,  science,  a  love  of  the  arts,  political 
economy,  and  wealth  could  desire,  to  adopt  the  initiatory  steps  for 
the  organization  of  a  free  government  in  Syria,  as  I  have  before 
said,  by,  and  with  the  consent,  and  under  the  protection  of  the 
Christian  powers.  I  propose,  therefore,  for  all  the  Christian 
societies  who  take  an  interest  in  the  fate  of  Israel,  to  assist  in 
their  restoration  by  aiding  to  colonize  the  Jews  in  Judea ;  the 

progress  may  be  slow,  but  the  result  will  be  certain The 

first  step  is  to  solicit  from  the  Sultan  of  Turkey  permission  for 
the  Jews  to  purchase  and  to  hold  land ;  to  build  nouses,  and  to 
follow  any  occupation  they  may  desire,  without  molestation  and 
in  perfect  security.  There  is  no  difficulty  in  securing  this  privi- 
lege for  them.  The  moment  the  Christian  powers  feel  an  interest 
in  behalf  of  the  Jewish  people,  the  Turkish  government  will 
secure  and  carry  out  their  views.  The  moment  the  Sultan  issues 
his  Hatti  Scherif,  allowing  the  Jews  to  purchase  and  hold  land 
in  Syria,  subject  to  the  same  laws  and  limitations  which  govern 
Mussulmans,  the  whole  territory  surrounding  Jerusalem,  includ- 
ing the  villages  Hebron,  Safat,  Tyre,  also  Beyroot,  Jaffa,  and 
other  ports  of  the  Mediterranean,  will  be  occupied  by  enterprising 
Jews.  The  valleys  of  the  Jordan  will  be  filled  by  agriculturists 
from  the  north  of  Germany,  Poland,  and  Russia.  Merchants  will 
occupy  the  seaports,  and  the  commanding  positions  within  the 
walls  of  Jerusalem  will  be  purchased  by  the  wealthy  and  pious  of 
our  brethren.  Those  who  desire  to  reside  in  the  Holy  Land,  and 
have  not  the  means,  may  be  aided  by  those  societies  to  reach 
their  desired  haven  of  repose.  Christians  can  thus  give  impetus 
to  this  important  movement ;  and  emigration  flowing  in,  and 
actively  engaged  in  every  laudable  pursuit,  will  soon  become  con- 
solidated, and  lay  the  foundation  for  the  elements  of  government 


and  the  triumph  of  restoration.  This,  my  friends,  may  be  the 
glorious  result  of  any  liberal  movement  you  may  be  disposed  to 
make  in  promoting  the  final  destiny  of  the  chosen  people. 

The  discovery  and  application  of  steam  will  be  found  to  be  a 
great  auxiliary  in  the  promotion  of  this  interesting  experiment. 
Steam  packets  to  Alexandria  leave  England  every  fortnight ;  a 
line  of  packets  are  established  between  Marseilles  and  Constanti- 
nople, stopping  at  the  Italian  ports,  and  at  Athens  and  Smyrna, 
thus  bringing  the  Jewish  people  within  a  few  days'  travel  of 
Jerusalem.  Our  Mediterranean  and  Levant  trade,  hitherto  much 
neglected,  will  be  revived,  affording  facilities  to  reach  Palestine 

from  this  country  direct It  is  your  duty,  men  and 

Christians,  to  aid  us  peaceably,  tranquilly,  and  triumphantly  to 
repossess  the  land  of  our  fathers,  to  which  we  have  a  legal, 
equitable,  perpetual  right,  by  a  covenant  which  the  whole  civilized 
world  acknowledges.  That  power  and  glory  which  were  once 
our  own,  you  now  possess ;  the  banner  of  the  Crescent  floats 
where  the  standard  of  Judah  was  once  displayed ;  it  is  for  you  to 
unfurl  it  again  on  Mount  Zion.  It  will  redound  to  your  honor — 
it  will  perpetuate  your  glory. 

Since  the  period  of  the  reformation  we  have  enjoyed  compara- 
tive tranquility.  But  free  by  law,  we  are  not  so  by  public  opinion. 
Prejudice  still  scowls  upon  us,  denying  us  that  estimation,  that 
influence,  that  portion  of  worldly  honors  and  rights  which  should 
appertain  to  the  citizen  of  every  faith.  We  are  not  fully  incor- 
porated in  the  family  of  mankind.  The  afflictions  under  which 
the  chosen  people  have  suffered  have  entailed  an  awful  responsi- 
bility upon  Christians Where  is  the  warrant  for  this 

persecution  of  the  Jews — this  innate  feeling  of  hostility  and  pre- 
judice against  them — on  the  part  of  Christians?  We  have  lost 
all — country,  government,  kingdom  and  power.  You  have  it 
all — it  is  yours.  It  was  once  ours — it  is  again  to  be  restored  to 
us.  Dismiss,  therefore,  from  your  hearts  all  prejudice  which  still 
lurks  there  against  the  favored  people  of  God,  and  consider  their 
miraculous  preservation  as  a  light  and  beacon  for  the  great  events 
which  are  to  follow.  They  are  worthy  of  your  love,  your  confi- 
dence and  respect Is  it  nothing,  my  friends,  to  have 

outlived  all  the  nations  on  earth,  and  to  have  survived  all  who 
sought  to  ruin  and  destroy  us?  Where  are  those  who  fought  at 
Marathon,  Salamis,  and  Plataea?  Where  are  the  generals  of 
Alexander — the  mighty  myriads  of  Xerxes?  Where  are  the 
bones  of  those  which  once  whitened  the  plains  of  Troy?  We 
only  hear  of  them  in  the  pages  of  history.  But  if  you  ask  where 
are  the  descendants  of  the  million  of  brave  souls  who  fell  under 
the  triple  walls  of  Jerusalem?  Where  are  the  subjects  of  David 
and  Solomon,  and  the  brethren  of  Jesus?  I  must  answer,  here. 
Here  we  are — miraculously  preserved — the  pure  and  unmixed 
blood  of  the  Hebrews,  having  the  law  for  our  light,  and  God  for 
our  Redeemer.  How  we  have  suffered,  my  friends,  for  steadily 


adhering  to  a  belief  in  his  unity,  I  need  not  pain  you  by  recapitu- 
lating. Even  to  this  day  persecution  has  not  sheathed  its  bloody 
sword.  But  if  the  Jews  for  eighteen  hundred  years  have  been 
assailed  by  the  sword,  by  the  rack  and  the  Inquisition,  their  great, 
and  abiding,  and  absorbing  faith  has  sustained  them  in  the  midst 

of  those  trials Countrymen  and  citizens,  thank  God, 

your  hands  and  hearts  are  free  from  the  stains  of  such  iniquity. 
If  you  have  wronged  Israel,  it  has  arisen  only  from 
the  prejudices  of  early  education.  Dismiss  such  feelings ; 
be  better  acquainted  with  the  Jew,  and  learn  to  estimate 
his  virtues.  See  him  in  the  bosom  of  his  family,  the 
best  of  fathers,  and  truest  of  friends.  See  children  dutiful,  affec- 
tionate, and  devotedly  attached,  supporting  their  parents  with 
pride  and  exultation.  See  wives  the  most  faithful,  mothers  the 
most  devoted.  Go  with  me  into  the  haunts  of  misery,  where  the 
daughters  of  misfortune  walk  the  streets  of  this  great  city,  and 
see  if  among  them  you  find  one  Jewess.  Come  with  me  to  the 
prisons,  where  crime,  riots,  and  vice  abound,  and  examine  whether 
a  Jew  is  the  tenant  of  a  dungeon.  Go  into  your  almshouses,  and 
ascertain  how  many  Jews  are  recioients  of  your  bounty.  See 
them  all,  the  friends  of  virtue  and  of  temperance,  obedient  to  the 
laws  and  devoted  to  the  country  that  protects  them.  Are  we  not, 
then,  worthy  of  your  confidence  and  esteem,  discharging,  as  we 
do,  every  moral  obligation  imposed  upon  us? 

The  United  States,  the  only  country  which  has  given  civil  and 
religious  rights  to  the  Jews  equal  with  all  other  sects ;  the  only 
country  which  has  not  persecuted  them,  has  been  selected  and 
pointedly  distinguished  in  prophecy  as  the  nation  which,  at  a 
proper  time,  shall  present  to  the  Lord  his  chosen  and  trodden- 
down  people,  and  pave  the  way  for  their  restoration  to  Zion. 
But  will  they  go,  I  am  asked,  when  the  day  of  redemption  arrives? 
All  will  go  who  feel  the  oppressor's  yoke.  We  may  repose  where 
we  are  free  and  happy,  but  those  will  go  who,  bowed  to  the  earth 
by  oppression,  would  gladly  exchange  a  condition  of  vassalage 
for  the  hope  of  freedom :  that  hope  the  Jews  can  never  surrender ; 
they  cannot  stand  up  against  the  prediction  of  our  prophets, 
against  the  promises  of  God ;  they  cease  to  be  a  nation,  a  people, 
a  sect,  when  they  do  so.  Let  the  people  go — point  out  the  path 
for  them  in  safety,  and  they  will  go,  not  all,  but  sufficient  to  con- 
stitute the  elements  of  a  powerful  government :  and  those  who  are 
happy  here  may  cast  their  eyes  towards  the  sun  as  it  rises,  and 
know  that  it  rises  on  a  free  and  happy  people  beyond  the  moun- 
tains of  Judea,  and  feel  doubly  happy  in  the  conviction  that  God 

has  redeemed  all  his  promises  to  Jacob I  should  think 

that  the  very  idea,  the  hope,  the  prospect,  and  above  all,  the  cer- 
tainty of  restoring  Israel  to  his  own  ard  promised  land,  would 
arouse  the  whole  civilized  world  to  a  cordial  and  happy  co-opera- 
tion  

Let  me  therefore  impress  upon  your  minds  the  important  fact, 


that  the  liberty  and  independence  of  the  Jewish  nation  may  grow 
out  of  a  single  effort  which  this  country  may  make  in  their  behalf. 
That  effort  is  to  procure  for  them  a  permission  to  purchase  and 
hold  land  in  security  and  peace;  their  titles  and  possessions  con- 
firmed; their  fields  and  flocks  undisturbed.  They  want  only 
protection,  and  the  work  is  accomplished.  The  Turkish  govern- 
ment cannot  be  insensible  to  the  fact  that  clouds  are  gathering 
around  them,  and  destiny,  in  which  they  wholly  confide,  teaches 
them  to  await  the  day  of  trouble  and  dismemberment.  It  is  their 
interest  to  draw  around  them  the  friendly  aid  and  co-operation  of 
the  Jewish  people  throughout  the  world,  by  conferring  these  rea- 
sonable and  just  privileges  upon  them,  and  when  Christianity 
exerts  its  powerful  agency,  and  stretches  forth  its  friendly  hand, 
the  rights  solicited  will  be  cheerfully  conferred.  When  the  Jew- 
ish people  can  return  to  Palestine,  and  feel  that  in  their  persons 
and  property  they  are  as  safe  from  danger  as  they  are  under 
Christian  governments,  they  will  make  their  purchases  of  select 
positions,  and  occupy  them  peaceably  and  prosperously;  confi- 
dence will  with  them  take  the  place  of  distrust  and,  by  degrees, 
the  population  in  every  part  of  Syria  being  greatly  increased,  will 
become  consolidated,  and  ready  to  unfold  the  standard  when 
political  events  shall  demonstrate  to  them  that  the  time  has  ar- 
rived   Remember,  my  countrymen,  you  whose  aid  is 

invoked  to  assist  in  the  restoration,  that  we  are  to  return  as  we 
went  forth ;  to  bring  back  to  Zion  the  faith  we  carried  away  with 
us.  The  temple  under  Solomon,  which  we  built  as  Jews,  we 

must  again  erect  as  the  chosen  people For  two  thousand 

years  we  have  been  pursued  and  persecuted,  and  we  are  yet  here ; 
assemblages  of  men  have  formed  communities,  built  cities,  estab- 
lished governments,  rose,  prospered,  decayed,  and  fell,  and  yet 
we  are  here.  Rome  conquered  Greece,  and  she  was  no  longer 
Greece.  Rome,  in  turn,  became  conquered,  and  there  are  but 
few  traces  now  of  the  once  mistress  of  the  world ;  yet  we  are 
still  here,  like  the  fabled  Phoenix,  ever  springing  from  its  ashes, 
or,  more  beautifully  typical,  like  the  bush  of  Moses,  which  ever 

burns,  yet  never  consumes Come  therefore  to  our  aid, 

and  take  the  lead  in  this  great  work  of  restoration.  Let  the  first 
movement  for  the  emancipation  of  the  Jewish  nation  come  from 
this  free  and  liberal  country.  Call  to  mind  that  Moses  was  the 
first  founder  of  a  republican  form  of  government,  and  that  the 
first  settlers  on  this  continent  adopted  the  Mosaic  laws  as  their 
code,  and  strictly  enforced  them. 


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